Southern Tanzania's tropical savanna stretched endlessly, wild animals moving across the gently rolling land beneath the rising sun.
Bird calls echoed high overhead. An eagle circled in the sky, watching the ground keenly as it searched for prey.
The sun shone down on the land. The morning dew had already evaporated, and the temperature was gradually rising.
Zebras and giraffes searched for breakfast in the open grassland. Lions watched the grazing herbivores from a distance, though it wasn't time to hunt yet.
The best way to keep food fresh was not to kill it just yet.
A breeze passed through, setting flowers and leaves swaying.
"What next? We just take it by force? With all due respect, maybe what they're doing isn't decent, but what's wrong with the highest bidder winning?"
"Right, but nuclear technology can already be used for civilian purposes. You can think of it as using nuclear power to generate electricity."
Because this time, the braindance wasn't filmed by a person, but by a drone.
But making it move as nimbly as a person was difficult. This was more of an upgraded application of human-machine coordination technology.
"Isn't that what's happening now?"
Lier had originally wanted the Tanzanian Government to reclaim the mining rights on the grounds that the output had fallen short of the target, but that would indeed have been a bit like highway robbery.
The steel vehicle was moving along.
It was no small sum. If they kept raising the offer and still called it normal commercial business, they'd just be fooling themselves-
"Why are you laughing?" Carter asked, baffled. "Howard said that as long as we can use nuclear energy for civilian purposes, we'll have all the electricity and energy we could ever need.
"We can develop this energy together. Why does it